Drawing the Line: Art Therapy with the Difficult Client

by Lisa B. Moschini

This resourceful guide presents art therapy techniques for difficult clients where the typical therapist-client interaction can often be distant, demanding, and frustrating. Offering practical and theoretical information from a wide variety of treatment populations and diagnostic categories; and incorporating individual, group, and family therapy case studies, the text is filled with examples and over 150 illustrations taken from the author's sixteen years of experience working with hundreds of clients. The author is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master's degree in Clinical Art Therapy. The text comes with an accompanying CD-ROM which includes full-color pictures and additional material not found in the book.

With CD-ROM.

Genres: Psychology

368 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2004

Reviews

[Audiaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book, to learn about how therapists interpret art to learn about different types of therapy art projects. The majority of this text consists of the author interpreting artwork made by clients. The detailed discussions include photographs of the artwork, back histories of the clients, and the author's opinions about the meaning of specific portions of the art. Then the author goes further to describe how the artwork led to useful discussions with the clients. The index of the book includes several explicit interpretations and a large selection of art therapy projects, many of which I think would be fun to try!